Clarifying the uses of artificial intelligence in the enterprise

Michael Schmidt Crunch Network Contributor Michael Schmidt is the founder and CTO of Nutonian. How to join the networkArtificial intelligence. It’s dominating headlines with the promise of self-driving cars and virtual assistants becoming more real every day. But despite all the talk around AI, no one seems to really understand what it is or how companies can use it. Is AI the computer that competed on Jeopardy? Or Johnny 5 from the movie Short Circuit? Will machines really take our jobs? As data volumes surge and analytic engines become more mature, has technology finally caught up with the hype? Artificial intelligence does in fact encompass elements of all these things, but there’s been increasing market confusion around what it is and how businesses can successfully use it. The efforts of…